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Elon Musk's career was initially in software. He started out on a VIC-20 and BASIC. He sold his first game at 12. More professionally he then was involved with

Elon Musk's career was initially in software. He started out on a VIC-20 and BASIC. He sold his first game at 12. More professionally he then was involved with Zip2. After that came X. X merged with PayPal and the product eventually sold to eBay. It was after those endeavors that he started SpaceX, followed by Tesla, Neuralink, and the Boring Company. Twitter is just the latest, and it represents his return to software. I understand not wanting him to get out of physical stuff where he seems to really shine, but I am not too worried. The biggest threat is really a matter of time management. He is now spreading his time really really thin across some of his companies.

Symmetry 4y ago
He got his career started in software but my overall impression from Ashlee Vance's book, news reports about Tesla, etc is that Elon just doesn't have the same good judgement in software that he does in engineering. I mean, he's smart and hard working and could iterate features fast but that's different from sustainable software engineering. And Twitter isn't really about software at his level, it's more organization where I also don't think he has an unusual talent. He is a heavy user of the platform, though, unlike the people who had been running it and it's possible that will give him better judgement over which features matter.